Ward Whaling came to Caltech in 1949 to join the research group in nuclear physics at the W. K. Kellogg Laboratory. In this interview, Whaling discusses: work on measurement of nuclear masses; reminiscences of Charles and Thomas Lauritsen, William Fowler, C. Barnes, Alvin Tollestrup, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Fred Hoyle, Robert Christy, Murray Gell-Mann, Richard Feynman, physics chairman Robert Bacher; social and recreational activities at Caltech over 50 year span. There is an extensive discussion of the early days of astrophysics and nucleosynthesis at Caltech. The interview concludes with a discussion of Whaling's work on the scanning interferometer for the McMath solar telescope at Kitt Peak to measure atomic branching ratios.